1 Introduction

Hello everyone! Want to run a Windows application on Linux and finding it complicated? Don’t worry! It’s actually very easy… just follow this tutorial.

2 Installation

As usual:

  apt-get install wine

3 Configuration

What’s next? Do we need to configure lots of things like bottles and all that stuff? Actually no, the latest versions are well-made and the setup is super quick. We’ll run winecfg which will create our little environment:

  winecfg

Make sure the drives are properly displayed. Then click OK.

4 Launching the application

Here, I’ll use Spider Solitaire as an example. It’s a small game on Windows found at c:\windows\system32\spider.exe. Simply copy it to /home/$USER/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32. As you can see, I placed it exactly in the same location as it was on Windows.

Now we’re ready to launch it (with the absolute path):

  wine /home/$USER/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/spider.exe

Hurray, it works! :-)

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Last updated 08 Jun 2008, 16:44 CEST. history